- By treating them less favourably than other employees, because of that person’s disability.
- By not making reasonable adjustments.
Treating a disabled person less favourably because they are disabled has been unlawful since December 1996. However since 1999, the service providers have, had to think about making sensible adjustments to the way they provide their services so that disabled people can use them. More over the final stage of the duties, which means service providers, will have to bear in mind that they need to make permanent physical adjustments to their premises.
Employment Rights Act 1996
An employee has the right not to be subjected to any disadvantage by any act. This also requires that certain things are needed for the employer him or her self. Terms and Conditions apply to everything and every part of an employer’s rights. There are some terms and conditions, which will need to be written down as an contract of employment.
The contract of employment includes all sort of information about the business, such as:-
- Name of all employees
- Date on which employee started work
- Wages
- Hours of work and etc.
This also contains information like, Method of payment, Maternity entitlements and others. Employer rights are just about the employer, it is not about employees or any sort of discrimination.
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
This act is about stopping people offending the opposite sex to themselves. The sex discrimination act also states that it is unlawful to treat someone else less favourably on the foundation of his or her sex: ‘a personal discrimination against a woman or, on the argument on her sex, he treats her less auspiciously that he treats a man’.
There are several types of sex discrimination on the ground of marriage, disability and for many other reasons. It is not right to say that men are everything, they are needed to start businesses, and they are more dominant and manageable over women. This in its own way is discrimination to the females.
Women nowadays can do everything a man can do and discrimination may still take place by means that a woman does not have much strength; she doesn’t have the body which you need to do a certain amount of work. The objective of equal pay was basically to ensure that women receive the same pay as men for the same or broadly similar work. These sorts of phrases and statements are regarded to be part of discrimination. There are also cases in which women say to men, you can’t have this or you can’t do this because you are a man.
Race relation Act 1976
This act is about treating people of different race, religion, and culture equally and with the same sort of respect given to all other white people. After the attacks on the trade centre on September 11th 2001, it has been said that more people are being racist to Asians, than ever before. This applies to:
- Jobs
- Training
- Housing
- Education
It is also unlawful for the public to discriminate while carrying out any of their jobs. Racist incidents from criminal harassment and abuse to physical violence are offences under the criminal law.
People who commit these offences will be severely dealt with in many different ways, this could result in one being fines, taken to court or put in jail. In all these ways one will then have a criminal record. This includes both males and females, as all are thought to be equal no matter what their race, religion, size faith or anything else.
